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**SarSerceSaice** · 04-10-2007, 03:55 PM

Interesting review from someone who hasn't seen the film... any other films you haven't seen that you don't approve of?

I don't need to join the Ramtha Cult to know that it contains enough value to encompass a cow-flop either.

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Upon further investigation I find the films’ producers, writers, directors, and a number of the featured “experts” are members of the Ramtha School of Enlightenment. The film is a propaganda piece for a cult.

I did a little digging on Ramtha:

Ramtha is a 35,000 year-old spirit-warrior who appeared in J.Z. Knight’s kitchen in Tacoma, Washington in 1977. Knight claims that she is Ramtha’s channel. She also owns the copyright to Ramtha and conducts sessions in which she pretends to go into a trance and speaks Hollywood’s version of Elizabethan English in a guttural, husky voice. She has thousands of followers and has made millions of dollars performing as Ramtha at seminars ($1,000 a crack) and at her Ramtha School of Enlightenment, and from the sales of tapes, books, and accessories (Clark and Gallo 1993). She must have hypnotic powers. Searching for self-fulfillment, otherwise normal people obey her command to spend hours blindfolded in a cold, muddy, doorless maze.

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...and my point was that for something to be a 'scam' then someone has to benefit... not sure who you think benefits from the distribution of a free eBook...

I see it this way:
I give you a shot of the happy juice today: The first one's free....all I ask in return is that you tell aaaaall your friends about me, and where and who you got your bliss from.
Ain't nothing in this world for free.

Scam: a fraudulent or deceptive act or operation

Fraud: a person who is not what he or she pretends to be : IMPOSTOR; also : one who defrauds : CHEAT b : one that is not what it seems or is represented to be.

... and fresh out of pot-pies...

That, my good man, is simply an egregious crime.

04-10-2007, 03:55 PM	#30
SarSerceSaice Join Date Oct 2005 Posts 486 Senior Member	Interesting review from someone who hasn't seen the film... any other films you haven't seen that you don't approve of? I don't need to join the Ramtha Cult to know that it contains enough value to encompass a cow-flop either. Snip: Upon further investigation I find the films’ producers, writers, directors, and a number of the featured “experts” are members of the Ramtha School of Enlightenment. The film is a propaganda piece for a cult. I did a little digging on Ramtha: Ramtha is a 35,000 year-old spirit-warrior who appeared in J.Z. Knight’s kitchen in Tacoma, Washington in 1977. Knight claims that she is Ramtha’s channel. She also owns the copyright to Ramtha and conducts sessions in which she pretends to go into a trance and speaks Hollywood’s version of Elizabethan English in a guttural, husky voice. She has thousands of followers and has made millions of dollars performing as Ramtha at seminars ($1,000 a crack) and at her Ramtha School of Enlightenment, and from the sales of tapes, books, and accessories (Clark and Gallo 1993). She must have hypnotic powers. Searching for self-fulfillment, otherwise normal people obey her command to spend hours blindfolded in a cold, muddy, doorless maze. End Snip: ...and my point was that for something to be a 'scam' then someone has to benefit... not sure who you think benefits from the distribution of a free eBook... I see it this way: I give you a shot of the happy juice today: The first one's free....all I ask in return is that you tell aaaaall your friends about me, and where and who you got your bliss from. Ain't nothing in this world for free. Scam: a fraudulent or deceptive act or operation Fraud: a person who is not what he or she pretends to be : IMPOSTOR; also : one who defrauds : CHEAT b : one that is not what it seems or is represented to be. ... and fresh out of pot-pies... That, my good man, is simply an egregious crime.
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